The Aprilia MotoGP staff escaped a serious accident throughout Saturday’s San Marino Grand Prix as an unbelievable chain of occasions resulted in an errant Ahead Racing Moto2 bike crashing into Aleix Espargaro’s storage.
Ahead’s substitute rider Unai Orradre (who’s standing in for the injured Alex Escrig) was using down the Misano pitlane throughout second Moto2 observe when a observe employee stepped off the elevated pitwall with out checking to see if his path was clear.
As first reported by Motosprint’s Mirko Colombi, who witnessed the collision and captured the lead photograph of the aftermath, the 2 collided and Orradre fell from his machine as he took avoiding motion, although he escaped with out damage.
The marshal concerned was taken to hospital for additional examination however is believed to have escaped main accidents.
However the riderless bike then proceeded down the pitlane, veering into the Aprilia storage and placing one in all Espargaro’s mechanics – who was left with with minor hand accidents – and one of many RS-GP machines.
Together with his crew chief Antonio Jiminez and information engineer solely simply having stepped out of the storage, Espargaro informed The Race that issues might have been a lot worse had the incident occurred solely moments earlier.
“We have been very fortunate,” Espargaro admitted. “I used to be not there however they informed me the bike got here contained in the storage – and by chance, one minute earlier than, as a result of the bike hit my engineer’s desk, Antonio and my information man went out to take a espresso.
“However the bike utterly destroyed the storage. So, we’re very fortunate. Just a few scare of 1 mechanic.
“Some very unusual issues can occur on this world.”
The incident instantly drew disagreeable comparisons to the tragic demise of Japanese racer Nobuyuki Wakai on the 1993 Spanish GP at Jerez.
There, the 250cc class rider was exiting the pitlane when he was compelled to take avoiding motion to overlook placing a fan who had gained unauthorised entry to pitlane, and died after hitting his head on the nook of the pitwall.
